Alexandra Petri Quotes
Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.
Alexandra Petri
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
Irene Rosenfeld
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There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.
Adam Draper
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
Xavier Rudd
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth
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A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
Gary Hamel
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
J. C. Watts
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
G. Edward Griffin
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
F. Sionil Jose
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
Fiona Apple
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
W. Bruce Cameron
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You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I think friendship is learning from Leeeuk hyung in Super Junior. Oh, I know, friendship is Super Junior.
Yesung
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Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
Billy Mitchell
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I never knew you were supposed to push off of your feet when you walked. And I tried it, and I walked much faster.
John Mulaney
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Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.
Alexandra Petri
